LITTLE, Edward Campbell, a Representative from Kansas; born in Newark, Licking County, Ohio,
December 14, 1858; moved to Kansas in 1866 with his parents, who settled in
Olathe; attended the public schools of Abilene, Kans., and was graduated from
the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1883; connected with the Santa Fe
Railroad for several years; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1886 and
commenced practice in Lawrence, Kans.; chairman of the Republican State
convention in 1888; city attorney of Ness City in 1889; prosecuting attorney of
Dickinson County 1890-1892; delegate at large to the Republican National
Convention in 1892; United States diplomatic agent and consul general with rank
of Minister Resident to Egypt in 1892 and 1893; private secretary to Gov. John
W. Leedy in 1896 and 1897; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United
States Senate in 1897; lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Regiment, Kansas
Volunteers, during the Spanish-American War in 1898 and 1899; received Spanish
War and Philippine Campaign Medals for services in the Philippines; settled in
Kansas City, Kans., in 1908; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and to
the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1917, until is death
in Washington, D.C., June 27, 1924; chairman, Committee on Revision of the Laws
(Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses); interment in the City Cemetery,
Abilene, Kans.